the Age of Ageing and Diversity: HRM FOR LTC FOR THE ELDERLY

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the Age of Ageing and Diversity HRM FOR LTC
FOR THE ELDERLY
Frits Tjadens, Vilans, the Netherlands

• Some notes

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Background

• Ageing societies, incl. health care workforce,
  amongst which carers
• Increasingly diverse societies
• Increasingly elderly people face multiple chronic
  health problems
• (slowly increasing) more assertive elderly
• However
• Cognitive problems (Alzheimer, CVA) also on the
  increase

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A Dutch calculation

• By 2025 35 increase in demand for care
• By 2025 10 decrease in available supply
• Need to bridge the 45 gap.

Source Goris, A. H. Mutsaers. Ruimte voor
arbeidsbesparende technologie. Room for labour
saving technologies. Leiden STG/HMF, 2008
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By systematic innovation

• National programme elderly care
• Care innovation platform

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LTC
TLC
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Traditional focus in long-term care
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Re-developing care work

• From Taylor to skill-mix redesign
• new challenges for management
• Innovative approaches for low-level care workers
• New perspective on care work

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A dusty game
Dart game Signaling and responding
Game of theses Is it ok if its something more?
the family care game
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Now, due to ageing and lack of human resources
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Changing family care

• Communication www.sharecare.nl
• Better care
• Management
• Guidance with complex care needs
• Adjusting to the housepital
• Reconciling work and caring life
• not the employability of the carer, but
• the careability of work.

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So it is time for
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Reducing demand

• Prevention/healthy life styles
• Expert patients
• Care literacy
• User friendly interfaces
• care-brokers
• Ict
• Health centres for the elderly
• Vouchers and personalized budgets

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THE AGENDA
support the heart
Adapt the changing interplay Adapt interplay to
stimulate hand, heart and brains
use brains
adapt the hands
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So are we heading towards this?

• Fully interlocking LTC?

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Or towards this?
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THIS IS WHERE OUR TOUR ENDSyour tour guide
thanks you

• f.tjadens_at_vilans.nl
• T 31 30 789 2412
• F 31 30 789 2599